CHESS
December 2012
In chess one should never take one's opponent in trust: it leaves one open to the swindle
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November 2012
In a male dominated game it was an 15-year-old girl who became the youngest ever grandmaster. She is now chess's finest female player
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October 2012
While not all artists are chess players, all chess players are artists. So said Marcel Duchamp, a mean player himself
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September 2012
Television networks have long since abandoned chess but a multi-millionaire promoter plans to catapult it back into the limelight
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Chess
Standpoint’s chess column, written each month by Dominic Lawson, author of The Inner Game.
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